{"id":419,"date":"2020-07-10T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sancho-conference\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2023-01-15T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:51:08","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sancho-conference\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This conference presents the ongoing work of \u201cThe Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London: The Life and World of Ignatius Sancho (1729\u20131780),\u201d an interdisciplinary research group affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University and that includes subject experts at other institutions in the United States and in the United Kingdom. The focus of our project is Ignatius Sancho, a Black British writer born into slavery and the first Black person to publish original musical compositions. Sancho was deeply engaged with the visual and performing arts\u2014music, literature, theater, dance, and visual art\u2014as means for resisting discrimination, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Black people in London and across the British empire. Despite the importance of his work, Sancho\u2019s story\u2014especially his engagement with the arts\u2014remains little known today. Our team, comprised of humanities scholars of the arts as well as arts practitioners, is working to build a digital platform that sheds new light on the arts in Sancho\u2019s worldview and practice. In 2023 we plan to launch this website, which will include resources for the general public to learn about the arts in Sancho\u2019s worldview and practice, as well as materials for middle- and high-school teachers to use as a means of exploring antiracism in the arts with their students. Ultimately, our project will offer a new understanding of Ignatius Sancho as a figure embedded within a racially and culturally complex landscape, highlighting the role of the arts in advancing the cause of racial justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page-header\">\n<p>This event is presented by:<\/p>\n<p>Mason Gross School of the Arts<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/masongross.rutgers.edu\">https:\/\/masongross.rutgers.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers\u2014New Brunswick<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu\/\">https:\/\/globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This conference presents the ongoing work of \u201cThe Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London: The Life and World of Ignatius Sancho (1729\u20131780),\u201d an interdisciplinary research group affiliated with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sancho-conference\/about-us\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About - Sancho Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sancho-conference\/about-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Sancho Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This conference presents the ongoing work of \u201cThe Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London: The Life and World of Ignatius Sancho (1729\u20131780),\u201d an interdisciplinary research group affiliated with the &hellip; 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